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What is Clash of Civilizations

World Politics and the Challenges for International Security
Political scientist Samuel Huntington’s controversial thesis that in the twenty-first century the globe’s major civilizations will conflict with one another, leading to anarchy and warfare similar to that resulting from conflicts between states over the past five hundred years.
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Global Security and Political Problems of the 21st Century
Nika Chitadze (International Black Sea University, Georgia)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 72
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9586-2.ch002
Abstract
The purpose of this research is consideration and analysis of the main security and political problems of the world, which are connected with the arms race and arms control; problems of the proliferation the weapons of mass destruction; protection of human rights; failed states; the nuclear potential of the different countries; existence of the nuclear-weapons-free zones in the different regions of the world; problems related to the reduction of the conventional arms, arms supplies, arms trade, problems of organized crime, international terrorism in the framework of which there are discussed the different types of terrorism, the methods that are used by terrorist organizations for the implementation their activities, problems related to the enlargement of democracy and violation of the fundamental principles of human rights, etc.
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The Discursive Representation of Islam and Muslims in Movies
Samuel Huntington’s theory predicted conflicts after the Cold War to be predominantly cultural and claimed that when considering all clashes around the world, Islam and the West have become the two major players in all major cultural conflicts around the World.
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The Demonization of Islam in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
It is thesis that cultural differences will be the main source of conflict in the Post-Cold War world.
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Rethinking Interpretive Theory in Contemporary Politics
A hypothesis proposed by Samuel Huntington that future conflicts will be based on cultural and religious identities rather than ideological or economic divisions.
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Main Characters of Globalization in the 21st Century
Political scientist Samuel Huntington’s controversial thesis that in the twenty-first century the globe’s major civilizations will conflict with one another, leading to anarchy and warfare similar to that resulting from conflicts between states over the past five hundred years.
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Orientalism, Islamophobia, and the Concept of Otherization Through Civil Conflict, Digital Platform Netflix: The Example of the Messiah Series
The Clash of Civilizations thesis was put forward by Samuel Hungtington as one of the efforts to make sense of the fundamental dynamics of the new international system that emerged after the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s.
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